http://www.stonemind.net/blog Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:28:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/08/08/further-impressions-of-the-blueprint-css-framework/ http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/08/08/further-impressions-of-the-blueprint-css-framework/#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:25:37 +0000 admin http://www.stonemind.net/blog/?p=91 First Impressions of the Blueprint CSS Framework. People continue to read it, cite it, and comment on it, even though it is horribly out of date. The post was written a year ago using the 0.40 version of Blueprint, which is currently at 0.7.1 as this is being written. And I wrote this post as sort of a test, and didn't intend it to be a Blueprint tutorial in anyway. I am not a CSS guru, which I thought might make my experiences with Blueprint more interesting, as someone who might particularly benefit from this framework. Given that this post continues to be cited, however, I feel that I'm doing a disservice to the Blueprint project. So, I want to try to set the record straight in this post.]]> http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/08/08/further-impressions-of-the-blueprint-css-framework/feed/ http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/07/18/the-416/ http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/07/18/the-416/#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:58:13 +0000 admin http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/07/18/the-416/ http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/07/18/the-416/feed/ http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/07/03/misguided-attempts-to-develop-overspecialized-skills/ http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/07/03/misguided-attempts-to-develop-overspecialized-skills/#comments Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:46:39 +0000 admin http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/07/03/misguided-attempts-to-develop-overspecialized-skills/ http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/07/03/misguided-attempts-to-develop-overspecialized-skills/feed/ http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/06/23/drupal-6-site-structure-script/ http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/06/23/drupal-6-site-structure-script/#comments Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:01:22 +0000 admin Drupal http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/06/23/drupal-6-site-structure-script/ script I posted some time ago that creates a basic site structure in Drupal. Its not uncommon that a customer will want a leg up on migrating their content into Drupal, or will have a basic structure in mind even before they fill it with content. I recently started working in Drupal 6, now that many of the modules I typically use are at least in beta for Drupal 6. So, I found that I needed to update the script as follows:]]> http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/06/23/drupal-6-site-structure-script/feed/ http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/06/08/drupal-developers-orientation/ http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/06/08/drupal-developers-orientation/#comments Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:46:49 +0000 admin Drupal http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/06/08/drupal-developers-orientation/ http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/06/08/drupal-developers-orientation/feed/ http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/05/21/common-open-source-tools-make-generating-visual-software-documentation-easier/ http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/05/21/common-open-source-tools-make-generating-visual-software-documentation-easier/#comments Wed, 21 May 2008 23:36:31 +0000 admin imagemagickshell scripting http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/05/21/common-open-source-tools-make-generating-visual-software-documentation-easier/ http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/05/21/common-open-source-tools-make-generating-visual-software-documentation-easier/feed/ http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/05/14/zoomifyimage-version-14-released-today/ http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/05/14/zoomifyimage-version-14-released-today/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 19:58:05 +0000 admin PythonZope http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/05/14/zoomifyimage-version-14-released-today/ http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/05/14/zoomifyimage-version-14-released-today/feed/ http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/04/23/fixing-shipcalc-module-bug-is-an-example-of-overriding-drupal-forms/ http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/04/23/fixing-shipcalc-module-bug-is-an-example-of-overriding-drupal-forms/#comments Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:42:52 +0000 admin Drupalecommerce http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/04/23/fixing-shipcalc-module-bug-is-an-example-of-overriding-drupal-forms/ Please enter a valid ZIP Code for the sender. (error -2147219498) usps configuration error. Please notify the site administrator. Which occurred during the checkout process and only happened when a zip code contained a "+ 4" code at the end. Of course, I often find Google to be the best debugging tool of all, and I quickly found this post containing a workaround by Kenneth Bartlett that not only made it so I didn't have to untangle the shipcalc module's code, which would likely mean debugging Web Services calls to USPS, but is actually a pretty good solution in its own right I think. The only thing I didn't like about it was that it directly patched an e-commerce module file at modules/ecommerce/address/address.module. Whenever I use a piece of customizable software like Drupal (or Wordpress, osCommerce, etc.) I avoid directly patching both the core code and any third party modules, because this creates a maintenance burden for me when I want to upgrade the core software or an affected module, which could potentially wipe out these kinds of patches. I have my hands maintaining my own code, I don't want to worry about modules I didn't write.]]> http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/04/23/fixing-shipcalc-module-bug-is-an-example-of-overriding-drupal-forms/feed/ http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/04/17/being-steve-jobs/ http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/04/17/being-steve-jobs/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:48:25 +0000 admin http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/04/17/being-steve-jobs/ The Second Coming of Steve Jobs by Alan Deutschman, and although the book was published way back in 2000, it was written at a time when Apple had already made a strong comeback, so I thought that it would still be a relevant case study of Job's and Apple's success.]]> http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/04/17/being-steve-jobs/feed/ http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/04/10/a-potential-confusion-when-converting-habtm-relationships-to-has_many-through/ http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/04/10/a-potential-confusion-when-converting-habtm-relationships-to-has_many-through/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:59:55 +0000 admin Ruby on Rails http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/04/10/a-potential-confusion-when-converting-habtm-relationships-to-has_many-through/ The Rails Way that said that has_and_belongs_to_many (habtm) relationships were essentially deprecated in Rails, and that has_many :through was the preferred way to handle many-to-many relationships. With has_many :through, the join table becomes a full-fledged rails model, meaning that you have more flexibility to extend the functionality of that model as your application evolves in the future--a very sensible best practice. So, I decided to convert an existing relationship that I had specified as habtm to has_many :through. I began to see errors that initially confused me, along the lines of NameError: Uninitialized Constant .... I had misnamed my join model and table because I was still thinking from the habtm perspective instead of treating the new model as I would any other model in a has_many...belongs_to relationship.]]> http://www.stonemind.net/blog/2008/04/10/a-potential-confusion-when-converting-habtm-relationships-to-has_many-through/feed/